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Favorite Everyone needs an elevator pitch for KM. Base it around these 3 questions. Buzzword Bingo – elevator pitchby Ron Mader on Flickr The elevator pitch is your 30-second attemtp to sell KM to a senior manager you meet in an elevator. It needs to be short, concise, and engaging. According
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Shared by Nick Milton April 19, 2018
Favorite In another updated reprise post from the archives, let’s look at typical roles in the KM organisation. As we pointed out earlier this week, the issue of Roles is an often-neglected part of the KM Framework. A fully mature KM organisation will contain several recognised KM positions in order
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Favorite We forget stuff over time, if we don’t practice it. What does that mean for Knowledge Management? The human brain learns and remembers stuff, but it also forgets stuff too. We know all about learning curves, but also need to realise there is a forgetting curve. The brain discards
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Favorite This video, hosted by SearchContentManagement.com, is a talk given by Rosemary Amato, the Deloitte program director for global client intelligence, during KM World 2011 during which she describes how Deloitte keeps its KM strategy current. Deloitte surveys their staff to test how people use knowledge, share knowledge and collaborate. Based on
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Favorite In this video David Henderson of the Y-12 National Security Complex Knowledge Preservation Management team gives an example of what can go wrong when critical skills are allowed to age out with the plant’s working population, and describes what his team are doing to address this risk. (Sorry I
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Favorite Many organisations are concerned about the GDPR and internal confidentiality issues associated with making all documents public and searchable. But KM does not have to work like that. Image from wikimedia commons We often come across concerns of internal confidentiality, Chinese Walls, and now GDPR which can make people
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Favorite The Umbrella week (aka Knowledge Handover) is a face-to-face process for sharing lessons with the rest of the organisation. Umbrella week image from army.mil You can read about a recent Umbrella week here, where Captain Scott Kuhn of the 3rd Armoured Brigade described an event last week. According to
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Favorite Your manager comes to you and says “I like the idea of Knowledge Management, but you have to give me an ROI figure”. Is this a problem, or an opportunity? At first sight this is a problematic request, as the ROI for KM is notoriously difficult to predict. If
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Favorite When we review client Knowledge Management frameworks, it is often the same two elements that are missiong, or poorly developed. One of the services we offer at Knoco is an assessment and benchmarking of client Knowledge Management Frameworks, to assess for completeness and maturity. We do this in two
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Favorite We have been having a discussion in Knoco about the differences between project document output, project knowledge output, and knowledge documents. Here is one way to look at the differences. Every project produces documents as a result of the project workstream. However, as we know, the organisation also needs
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